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100 unusual facts about Los Angeles


26264 McIntyre

It is named after Nancy McIntyre, an American educator in West Hills, California.

Ahmad Sohrab

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he helped write a scenario for a movie dealing with Mary Magdalene, for the actress Valeska Surratt.

Ali Banisadr

Ali Banisadr's work is in the public collections of The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Olbricht Collection in Germany, Francois Pinault Foundation in Italy, London's The Saatchi Gallery, Vienna's Sammlung Essl, and The Wurth Collection in Germany.

Am. Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

In 2006 the Board of Harbor Commissioners for Los Angeles, California adopted an environmental protection plan that included an effort called Clean Truck Program (CTP).

American Cinema Editors Awards 2006

The 56th ACE Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors were given on 18 February 2007 in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

American–Iranian Council

Ali Shakeri, founding member of the University of California-Irvine Center for Peacebuilding in Los Angeles, called the AIC on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 to thank the AIC and its members for diplomatic actions taken to gain his release from prison in Iran.

Amerikana

When philosophy student Peter (Goorjian) is abandoned by his Danish girlfriend in Los Angeles, his friend Chris (Duval) invites him to South Dakota to claim a Harley Davidson he has inherited from an uncle.

Ángeles González-Sinde

González-Sinde studied Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid and did a Masters in Cinema Scriptwriting at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Arafat Chekrouni

Chekrouni represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he was defeated in the second round by Italy's Paolo Canè.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 101

The precursor to the Santa Ana Freeway between Los Angeles and Anaheim was U.S. Route 101 Bypass from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, when it became part of US 101.

Ben Rich

After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.

Betty Eisner

After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bigmouth buffalo

Within California they have also been introduced to the aqueduct system of Los Angeles.

Black Cat Squadron

After his retirement, he and his family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became an ardent activist for ROCAF POWs' rights, particularly the right of POWs to return to Taiwan to reunite with their families after imprisonment in mainland China.

Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) was a British-American nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the seminal Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.

Broowaha

Several local editions of BrooWaha have been launched for a number of major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and very recently Atlanta, Houston and Miami.

Bruce Winstein

Bruce Winstein (25 September 1943, Los Angeles – 28 February 2011) was an experimental physicist and cosmologist noted for his early work in elementary particle physics, particularly work toward demonstrating a serious asymmetry between particles and their anti-particles (CP violation).

Camp Drum

A Civil War era military encampment active from 1862–1873 near Los Angeles; see Drum Barracks.

Carton

The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.

Charles E. Young Research Library

The Charles E. Young Research Library is one of the largest libraries on the campus of UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Claire McNab

She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.

Classixx

In their early twenties, Classixx began to define a new sound for the Los Angeles electronic music scene.

Cliff Solway

Though they tried to live together in Bower's city, Los Angeles, for a time, they did not spend enough time together for the relationship to be viable, as Solway had to spend too much time in Toronto.

Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

Eagle Rock Music Festival

The Eagle Rock Music Festival is an annual street festival in Eagle Rock, California, that takes place in October.

Eisteddfod

The 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod: Welsh Festival of Arts in Los Angeles was sponsored by the Meriwether Lewis Memorial Eisteddfod Foundation in association with AmeriCymru, Welsh American social network, and A Raven Above Press, Welsh-American owned and operated small press.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Emily Hancock Siedeberg

She married James Alexander McKinnon (died 1949) in Los Angeles on 8 October 1928 and would be known as E.H. Siedeberg McKinnon and Emily H. Siedeberg-McKinnon.

Fambly 42

Fambly 42 is the fourth studio album by San Pedro-based punk band Toys That Kill, released on May 15, 2012 on Recess Records.

FanRocket

FanRocket is a Los Angeles-based creator of online content programming and technologies.

Farahnaz Amirsoleymani

Amirsoleymani is of Iranian descent, and was born in Los Angeles.

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Four Corners Office/Retail Complex

In 2003 Maya Properties, controleld by Los Angeles real estate investor Bob Yari, bought the complex from JP Morgan Fleming.

Francisca Flores

This organization "is one of the largest employment centers in Los Angeles," (1).

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

George W. Kelham

supervising architect for the Westwood campus: University of California, Los Angeles, 1927, including the design for Powell Library, Haines Hall, Kerckoff Hall, Moore Hall and the Men's Gym;

Gerald R. Allen

Gerald R. Allen (born 1942 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American born Australian ichthyologist.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Green National Convention

However, a group of Greens interested in a run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader met in Los Angeles in 1996 to nominate Nader for President and Winona LaDuke for Vice-President.

Hamish McIntosh

Hamish's big break came in an exhibition match at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands in California since 1986.

Hemoglobin D-Punjab

Hemoglobin D-Punjab was first discovered in the early 1950s in a mixed British and American family of Indian origin from the Los Angeles area; hence it is also sometimes called “D Los Angeles”.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

It Makes Me Feel Good

The creative process involved Mackay flying out beforehand to Los Angeles where he scouted for suitable song material and session musicians.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

John Randolph Haynes

In 1887, the family removed to Los Angeles where he became one of the city's busiest physicians.

Katy Garretson

She has also taught classes on sitcom directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Larry Fagin

He began associating with other poets and writers in 1957, meeting David Meltzer in Los Angeles, and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso two years later in Europe.

Late night television in the United States

Television networks typically produce two late night shows: one taped in New York City and one in Los Angeles.

Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen (b. 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.

Lord Emp

Spartan did as asked, and inherited Marlowe's fortune, his company, and even his alias, later moving Halo's headquarter's from New York to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

The purpose of the Association is to represent its active members in employment relations and matters of working conditions with the City of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.

In 1977, the city of Los Angeles conducted a study regarding the effects of high concentrations of adult stores.

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Mari Kodama

In 2002, she gave her final performance of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle, which she presented over three consecutive seasons in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.

Martin Ralph

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.

Maurice Pivar

Maurice Pivar (b. 11 August 1894 in Manchester, United Kingdom - 14 June 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English-American film editor, producer and writer.

Mel Deschenes

In 2007 it was revealed that the week prior to the bombing, Deschenes was in Los Angeles with an International Commission on Terrorism, when he reportedly told Justice Department agent Graham Pinos that he felt Sikh extremists were "likely" to have a Canadian plane "blown out of the air".

Mercy Ministries

To date, Mercy Ministries has disclosed anticipated homes to be opened in Washington DC, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Florida, Vietnam, Peru and South Africa.

Metro Autobuses del Norte

Some bus lines cross the Mexico-USA border and reach U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, San Antonio and New York City.

Michele Fioroni

Fioroni represented his native country in the singles competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Moonlight Drive

According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California in 1965.

My First Mister

In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), a 17-year-old "goth-punk" girl, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk.

Natalie Robinson Cole

For much of her career, Cole taught inner city children in the Los Angeles area.

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Two large fundraising events are held each year to raise funds for NBCC: the Les Girls cabaret held every October in Los Angeles and the Annual New York Gala held in November in New York City.

Next Stop Hollywood

The series captures their excitement, frustrations, struggles, fears and tears as they compete with the world's best and try to navigate the travails of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles as they pursue their dreams of fame and fortune in Hollywood's dream factory.

Nobody Walks

23 year old Martine (Thirlby) has just arrived in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles when she moves into a wealthy family's pool house, and begins working to complete work on her art film.

Noticias MundoFox

Noticias MundoFox has a newsroom based in Los Angeles, California (making it the only major U.S.-based network news division that is not headquartered in the Eastern United States) with bureaus in Mexico City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City; airing on weekdays, four live half-hour editions of its main newscast are broadcast for the Eastern and Central Time Zones at 5:30 p.m.

Operation Auca

Following graduation, he married Marilou Hobolth and enrolled in a one-year basic medical treatment program at the School of Missionary Medicine in Los Angeles.

Oraristrix

Oraristix brea, the Brea Owl, is the an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

Pakistan Recovery Fund

Various discreet sponsorship opportunities also exist in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Dubai/Abu Dhabi and in Pakistan itself.

Paul Bindrim

Paul Bindrim (born 14 August 1920, New York - died 17 December 1997, Los Angeles) was an American psychotherapist who is known as the founder of nude psychotherapy which he believed allowed people to access and express repressed feelings more easily.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Phil Daley

After breaking his jaw in the State of Origin exhibition game in Los Angeles in 1987, Daley spent five weeks on the sidelines as Manly made their charge towards the Grand Final.

Queer Eye for the Straight Girl

As opposed to the original show, which is mostly set in New York City, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl is set in Los Angeles.

Rainbow Sandals

Rainbow Sandals are available online and at department and specialty stores nationwide, the original factory store in San Clemente, and two company-owned retail stores in New York City and Los Angeles.

Rand Schrader

Schrader died from AIDS-related complications on June 13, 1993 in Century City, California.

Reseda

Reseda, Los Angeles, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California

Russell Knipp

He was inducted in the USAW Hall of Fame and the Helms Amateur Athletes Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.

Salar Abdoh

When Abdoh was fourteen his family was forced to flee Iran and arrived in the U.S. His father died shortly after the family’s arrival in the States, leaving his children homeless in Los Angeles.

Samuel Belzberg

In 1977, with a donation of $500,000, he helped fund the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

Sean Carnage

Sean Carnage, born Sean Carney, is a director and producer living in Los Angeles.

Shabby chic

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the '90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

Sidique Ali Merican

He acted as deputy chef de mission for the Malaysian team at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, and chef de mission at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

Stun belt

It is also used during judicial hearings (e.g. in 1998, against Ronald Hawkins in Los Angeles, California for frequently interrupting Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani at a sentencing hearing).

Super Hornio Brothers

While noting that the films are considered to be the "holy grail" of pornographic parodies, The Cinema Snob ripped into both of them, noting the inconsistencies of the pornographic parodies, ranging from how characters were named and cast, ways that the films could better themselves using various Super Mario video game sound effects, to overt references to 1990s Los Angeles such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

TCP Westwood plus

The first implementation of TCP Westwood in ns2 was done at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999.

The Animal Medical Center of Southern California

The Animal Medical Center of Southern California is a veterinary hospital located within the city of Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Dharma at Big Sur

The piece was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles and was conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The Hot Hits Live from LA

Every week Maude Garrett and Dave Styles talk to artists and celebs, and countdown the hottest 35 songs in LA, live from Los Angeles, California.

The Way I Want to Touch You

In September 1973, Toni and Daryl were performing at The Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California and two men from a small F.M. station were in the audience one night.

True Self

All tracks were recorded at Bombshelter Studios in Los Angeles, California, unless otherwise noted.

Urdu Times

Over the years, Urdu Times extended the area of publication and is now being published in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mississauga (a suburb of Toronto), Montreal, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

Vasily Shumov

After a decade of artistic activity in the Soviet Union he moved 1990 to Los Angeles (California, USA), where he remains an active musician, making records (both, with Center and solo), playing live shows in USA and Russia, shooting short films and creating multimedia art.

We'll Bring the House Down

It tells the tale of a near death flying experience suffered by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea when travelling to Los Angeles.

Western gray squirrel

Local rehabilitation experts recount the Eastern Fox Squirrels were released in urban regions of Los Angeles throughout the 20th Century.

Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre

Critics, such as David Rogers of the Los Angeles-based Jerde Partnership, have faulted Bern for neglecting to integrate such a shopping centre into the city’s urban fabric.

Wikipad

The Wikipad 7 is an enterprise and video gaming tablet, running Android (4.2.2 ) produced by the independent Los Angeles-based company, Wikipad, Inc. Handheld prototypes were first shown at CES 2012 in January with the final product hitting shops in the UK accompanied by a well received TV in campaign December 2013 initiating its global roll out.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.


1970–71 Phoenix Suns season

Goodrich, a native of Los Angeles and who played college ball at UCLA, was traded before the season back to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he had played before being acquired in the expansion draft of 1968.

Ali Riley

Born in Los Angeles, California to parents John Graham Riley and Beverly Fong Lowe, Ali attended Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California.

Antonio F. Coronel

Antonio Francisco Coronel (October 21, 1817 Mexico City – April 17, 1894) served as the fourth mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Charles Navarro

The district was "in the south-central section of the city," bounded by Wilshire and Jefferson boulevards and La Brea Avenue and Main Street.

Chutes Park

The site also included, at various times, such exotic diversions as a seal pond, ostriches and the interestingly named House of Trouble and Cave of the Winds.

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Echo, Oregon

On 22 December 1927, William Edward Hickman, the murderer of Marion Parker in Los Angeles on 17 December, was arrested by police near the town.

Elscint

The VDP1 product was displayed in trade show in Los Angeles and drew the attention of General Electric, the world leader in medical imaging; and in 1971, Elscint and General Electric signed an exclusive distribution agreement in North America.

George Molchan

Molchan was hired and was based in Chicago; the other additional Wienermobiles were based in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Madison, Wisconsin, the company's home.

Institute For Figuring

Since its founding in 2003 by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim the IFF has staged public lectures in Los Angeles and New York on subjects such as tiling patterns, hyperbolic space, early computational devices, and tensegrity structures.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

Leo Zelada

He passed the Andes, the Amazons, the Darien, the Caribbeans and Chiapas, and finally he arrived to Los Angeles, United States of America.

Michael Allsup

He played in numerous local bands before relocating to Los Angeles in 1968, where he met a trio of vocalists (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells), who had a recording contract with Dunhill Records and were looking for backing musicians.

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

Neil Galanter

Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.

Nexus: The Infinite City

The primary core of Nexus play is Angel City, a Los Angeles separated from Earth in 1993 and wholly subsumed into Nexus.

PADRES

After being pressured, however, the NCCB agreed to set up an "informal liaison committee" of five bishops: Furey, Manning of Los Angeles, Green of Tucson, Medeiros of Brownsville, and Buswell of Pueblo.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Ralph Abernathy

Donzaleigh Abernathy is a noted actress, author and public speaker in Los Angeles.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

Robin Wright

She attended La Jolla High School and Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Savannah Robinson

Following that, she appeared on local television on the Los Angeles KTTV show Good Day L.A..

Shock Theater

Shock Theater continued the American tradition of horror film television shows such as Vampira (Maila Nurmi with Los Angeles KABC-TV 1954–1955).

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

St. Martin, Minnesota

St. Martin was the setting for The Chicken Doesn't Skate, a children's novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman, in which a sixth-grade nerd is transplanted there from Los Angeles.

Statue of Responsibility

The statue foundation would like to build it in one of five host cities: Long Beach, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco (California) or Seattle (Washington).

Sugar Bowl Regatta

The Sugar Bowl Regatta has featured multiple Olympians, including Gilbert Gray, who captured Olympic Gold in the STAR class in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.

The Silver Chair

Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham along with Vincent Sieber, the Los Angeles based director of The C.S. Lewis Company, will serve as producers and work with The Mark Gordon Company on developing the script.

Valarie Rae Miller

On summer vacation in Los Angeles, she took a course in stand-up comedy and went on to perform at such well-known clubs as The Improv and The Comedy Store.

Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball

Jeff Turner- won the gold medal in men's basketball as a member of Team USA at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Weather Underground

Rumors also circulated that the funds were donated by an internationally known female folk singer in Los Angeles or by Elephant's Memory, which was John Lennon's backup band in New York City and was a factor with the attempted deportation of Lennon, who had donated bail money for radical groups.

You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again

It told the stories of prostitute Michelle (who appears on the cover), prostitute Lisa, graphic artist Sophie, Jessia Sobel (b. Los Angeles, California 8 February 1968), the former stepdaughter of ex-British MP Martin Bell, OBE, the dancer Tatiana Thumbtzen (b. Clearwater, Florida 22 April 1960) and the singer Jennifer Young (b. Los Angeles, California 21 April 1964), the daughter of actor Gig Young and realtor Elaine Young.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.